Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.

Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.

Added pressure and responsibility should not change one's leadership style, it should merely expose that which already exists.

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

In This Body Mystery, even though it was written in the voice of people with HIV/AIDS, it's about how people come to accept their fate and their sickness. It's about accepting the way your life is.

We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.

It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.

Call school, tell them I'm lovesick.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.